Kacper Szkalej is Researcher in Intellectual Property and Technology Law at the Institute for Information Law (IViR) at the Amsterdam Law School and co-ordinator of the IViR Lecture Series. His academic expertise centres on protection and exploitation of information. Concentrating his activity primarily on copyright law, Kacper’s research ethos and interests are marked by a cross-disciplinary approach spanning the realm of law, technological regulation and contractual practices within the digital market, and cover a wide array of themes such as protection and consumer access to content, remuneration schemes, public interest exploitation, platform regulation, automation of decision-making, machine learning workflows and generative AI, open access, copyright enforcement and human rights.
Before joining IViR, Kacper was Assistant Professor in Law and Technology at the Swedish Law and Informatics Research Institute (IRI) at Stockholm University and the cross-disciplinary research center Digital Futures, where he worked with intellectual property, information security, and data protection law. He also served as Assistant Professor in Private Law at the Centre for Business Law (ACLU) at Lund University between 2021-2022 and prior to that was Lecturer in intellectual property law at the Institute of Intellectual Property, Marketing, and Competition Law (IMK) at Uppsala University between 2013-2021 where he also defended his doctorate work in 2021